Can I FINALLY do away with my floppy...

Been booting from USB key on my motherboard. Havent had a Floopy installed for a while but I do have one around just to be on the safe side.

Alf
 
Alf4 said:
Been booting from USB key on my motherboard. Havent had a Floopy installed for a while but I do have one around just to be on the safe side.

Alf
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Not done this before so how do you make a USB stick bootable? I have a 1GB stick which would be nice for all this stuff.
 
I wouldn't be without one...
But yep - You can run them without floppy's no problem.

Use nLite to intigrate SATA Drivers to your XP CD.
OK, if you update the firmware on the SATA Chip - Need to burn a new CD...
Or if you want to run Memtest, you need to do it on your USB Pen, or burn another CD...
Or run Ghost, it's burn another CD...

I don't have many blank CD's. :p
(Plenty blank DVD's)
So use a floppy quite a bit, also handy for booting to NTFS4DOS instead of burning yet another CD.

Use it too often not to have one. But for day to day use, they are not required.
 
Legend said:
Can you boot off a USB floppy the same as a normal IDE one??
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Yeah i had to do that last night for my RAID drivers. Just make sure to diasble the IDE floppy disk drive in the bios otherwise it gives your USB driver the drive letter B: and when i hit F6 in windows setup it couldnt find it.
 
Legend said:
Can you boot off a USB floppy the same as a normal IDE one??
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In most new mobo's - Yes.
(As advised, either disable the internal one or swap A & B: around - Option in some BIOS's)

In 3 or 4 year + mobo's... Some... but not every mobo.
 
just keep on in the cupboard. if you have a bios coruption big style the only things that you will be able to get to work will be ps2 keybaor dan floppy. was long thread on here over xmas were guy had to do this after having major probs
 
What I want to know is why did the people who designed sata make it in such a way that you need special drivers for it, so if you try to install windows without knowing about sata your ******.
 
Energize said:
What I want to know is why did the people who designed sata make it in such a way that you need special drivers for it, so if you try to install windows without knowing about sata your ******.
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You dont, only when the controller is set to raid mode, any intel ich7r and 8r sata controller set in ide not raid mode wont need drivers...



Only thing a floppy is for is to install raid drivers on some mobo's ( mainly intel chipset ) ( why the hell wont they put this on a cd lol ).

Flashing bios can be done in windows and with a cd ( on asus mobo's anyhow)
 
use a floppy for raid drivers, thats it.
i always use usb flash drive to change bios, just download it ,unzip it,copy the .rom file to usb drive,reboot and press alt+f2(asus)
i dont use the windows programme to change bios, it allways ***ks it up :D
 
I'm awaiting delivery of my Bad Axe 2, along with a 74GB Raptor, a 320GB Barracuda Sata and another older 120GB Sata drive I already have. I have NO intention to RAID. Will I need floppy when I install everything?
 
I have not had a floppy installed since I got my Coolermaster Black Widow. Not sure what year it was, but its probably about 3 or 4 years ago. Windows doesn't need drivers for basic SATA and I don't need a floppy to flash my bios so I have no reason at all to ever need one ever again. Thank god, I hate the things!
 
Solari said:
Not done this before so how do you make a USB stick bootable? I have a 1GB stick which would be nice for all this stuff.
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Google for

HPUSBFW_BOOTFILES.zip

and

hpflash1.exe

Used it to use a USB stick to flash my A8N-SLI Deluxe with a A8N-SLI Premium Bios.

I havnt used a floppy for about 3 years
 
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